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SA Rugby Annual 2015

SA v AUS – 2nd Test : Day 4

Can the Protea bowlers – the under-performers up to now – take ten wickets in three sessions, and can the batsmen then make the required 300-odd runs required in six hours of play?
Or will the Aussies occupy the crease well into tomorrow and force the most likely result – a draw?

Ja, missing all that squirming.
Would love to see Ponting pouting.
Will do short pop-ins to cricinfo
if and when I wake up during the night.

I can listen to Radio 2000, but I
really don’t care for their commentators.
Guy called Rodney speaks with an OZ
twang, and we also have a POC talking
about meat-off and meat-on etc.
All done in a quick chipmunk style with
ample interruptions.
:rant:

Maybe Steyn has now got the idea in his head that he is an all rounder he may just move up the order which leaves a spot for another bowler
Smith
Amla
Prince
Kallis
De Villiers
Duminy
Boucher
That batting line-up has a very good/solid feel to it IMO for tests. Amla and Smith score freely, Prince might not bat fast but will stick around. Kallis seems to bat freely at the moment but can play the patient role etc.
With Harris, Morkel, Stey and Ntini we have a tail that on the day can wag especially Morkel!

PS: Why does AB not bowl? He seems to be good at all the rest, surely he can start bowling too

Australia are bowled out for 247, leaving South Africa 183 to take the series. What a day its been – Steyn takes his tenth wicket in the match to make himself a solid candidate for Man of the Match. Steyn now has ten wickets and a fifty in this Test, joining a fairly elite list of players. Prior to his achievement only 21 players had done this, and just one – Daniel Vettori – since 2000. Ponting’s excellent 99, Kallis’ 250th wicket, Steyn’s 150. We’ve seen it all today.

In fact Steyn is one of only 20 players EVER to get 50 runs plus 10 wickets.
Richard Hadlee did it 3 times.

My son watched a few minutes of the Highlights last night with me.
He was disgusted that they don’t bowl Steyn out !!!
I then said Steyn is doing very well – thank you.
He replied that Steyn is very lucky – thank you.
Asked why – he quickly replied and showed me that Steyn hardly ever, if ever, uses his feet to get inline of the ball – and whenever the ball is bowled on or just off off-stump there is a huge gap – the size of his pads – between bat and ball.
And a batsmen can only keep soooo many balls out – before one slips through the huge gap or he nicks or he plays onto his wicket.

Imagine his delight when one went straight through the gap and Steyn got bowled – imagine also his disgust that the Aussies did not target that gap form the word go

Steyn an All-Rounder – after the “expert” analysis of my son I don’t think so

Switching “off” from all the elation/excitement/eagerness of getting Aus out cheap – and the real chance of winning the series tomorrow – is now the biggest challenge.
The switching-off is a mental skill that is coachable – few if any players know how to do it – ON DEMAND / WILLINGLY and effectively.